So where is this guy claiming MS forced him to do this?
The guy has a proven best seller and it's a flop on windows. Has it crossed your mind that the act of complaining may have actually helped MS in the long run? I'm pretty sure that if I had a shop and a certain product was gathering dust on my shelves but flying of the shelves of similar shops, I would want to look into that. I'm not sure I would want it broadcast on the net but trying to shoot the (noisy) messenger would just make things worse.
Business is not a zero sum game, even though $10k is less than MS shell out for office toilet paper in a year, it's in both parties interests to get to the root of what appears to be a genuine problem.
OTOH, perception is everything, so they might decide it's simpler to quietly offer him a portion of the toilet paper budget to shut up.
Yep, that's what US politicians do best, appeasing their sponsors, they will quite happily deny reality and make total fools of themselves because they don't give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks. Doesn't matter that they set up and ran the committee, nor is it relevant that this guy was just doing his job. There was a fuck up, (in that the opinion was released to the outside), someone needs to be sacrificed to appease the gods..err...sponsors.
To me this sort of behavior tells me all I need to know about those particular politicians. They are the type of leaders who would routinely quell dissent by denying reality and silencing sympathizers. More than a few US politicians have the same default policy toward climate change, the ring leader of that well-established group is Senator Inhofe.
The "good old days" when there were no property rights and you got what you wanted by bashing whoever had it, those "good old days"? The internet (indeed civilization)cannot exist without some level of cooperation, nor is it healthy in the long run to put global infrastructure under the control of any single government. If you want to reduce the influence of regimes such as N. Korea simply bribe them to cooperate on global infrastructure then use it against them. You can't have a planet that generally adhears to democratic principles if you simply dismiss over a billion people out of hand because their government is a bit dodgy.
Do you really want to have an internet controlled by entities which care more about power than freedom?
Putting this stuff under the UN is no more about giving China control than it is about giving the US control. China is part of the internet, what they do with their national network is ultimately their own business, what they or anyone else do to a global communications network is everyone's business, sattelites will always ensure no national blackout is ever 100% effective.
I understand you could argue the same about the U.S. however history has proven those arguments to be false.
Yes, however sInce WW2 most of the good deeds that the US lays is rightly proud of were achived through international cooperation and leading by example, not unilateral action. A lot of people don't like the direction the US Republican's have been trying to lead the world over the last decade, it's clear from the outside that the lunatics are now in charge of Ronald Reagan's party. What's not so clear is why people still vote for them. And no, this isn't an endorsment of the Democrats, it's a call for reason and moderation in domestic US politics because the (historically) recent un-reason is adversly affecting the rest of us.
Correct. It's about setting up a negotiating position externally, and creating and "us vs them" solidarity for the domestic punter, if there's no internal political debate the talking heads are silent on the subject except to state they are in agreement. In practical terms the internet would not exist if nations did not co-operate under some sort of treaty all the other crap is political theater. Such political games ensure that significant changes to the status quo on a global scale take generations to implement and are not understood by the public, that's a reasonable way to handle short term self interest but I doubt it's a good thing in the long run.
Learning/confirming that history would also serve as a "cheap" testing ground for unmanned missions to explore cracks on more distant surfaces such as Mars and Europa.
I like that. It is the classiest way of saying 'I'll pronounce it however I want. Now fuck off.'
Technically that is known as the humpty dumpty defense. Having said that I'm also an Aussie and agree with the OP on the pronounciation of an Australian place name, because we are Aussies we may have local knowledge that you lack, so it would be unfair to classify the GP's post as a humpty dumpty defense.
A much better translation would be "Fuck off tourist".
Those optimization failures are history other than the most extreme hot-rodders. All thats left is boring maintenance, and theres not much of it.
You hit the nail on the head. I'm one of the "grandfathers" you speak of, been driving (legally) since 1978, I've still got a "timing gun" somewhere in the garage. One minor nitpick, you forgot the simplest modification, on many older cars a foxtail tied to the aerial will give you an extra 10mph.
When I was young dad I spent many weekends under my car, now I have a car that doesn't break down and goes to the mechanic for regular servicing. I also don't mow my own lawn or maintain a lawn mower these days. Being "good with computers" has provided me with sufficient income that I no longer need to do some of the things I hate doing. If you enjoy repairing cars, mowing lawns, unblocking toilets, or cleaning roof gutters then great, I will happily pay you to do mine.
A monkey wrench is a monkey wrench but it's commonly called a "pair of Stilsons", Stilson is the name of a company that makes monkey wrenches. A pipe wrench is a pipe wrench. A plain old adjustable spanner is called a wrench, or more commonly a "shifter" which is shorthand for shifting spanner. Strangely a socket spanner is more commonly called a socket wrench. The same terminology is used in Australia because most of our past mechanics and engineers came from the UK.
I've got one of those in front of the couch, at the time panels were around $1k more than what I paid. Thing weighs a ton but it does the job. Way back in 1980 I bought a "portable" colour TV, it cost $400AU, (~3 weeks avg wages at the time), it was battered by kids for over 20yrs but was still working, my daughter inherited it but chucked it out when they turned off the analog signal a few years ago.
Oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere in the right concentrations
You may be surprised to know that life itself created our modern atmosphere, there was virtually no free oxygen for several billion years but there was life pretty much as soon as the things cooled down enough to allow oceans to form. Life put the oxygen in the atmosphere, the concentrations we have today are not just "luck".
I believe the GP was talking about a natural runaway GH effect, this is the fate of the Earth when the oceans evaporate in ~0.5 billion yrs from now. Venus and Mars also had oceans in the distant past. The water vapour is split by solar radiation and the hydrogen is lost to space, the oxygen is then free, oxygen doesn't like being free so it binds with carbon, sulphur, nitrogen, etc.
Of course, back then we had "tropical" climes north of the Arctic Circle
If you think the entire planet was like Hawaii back then, you're sadly misinformed.
Australia, it's not perfect, nothing is. However our national health outcomes are rated in the top 10, a family of four pays about 1/10th the cost of comparable private insurance in the US. It been.Statistically our system would have to kill another 20K people a year to be as effective as the US system. Polls consistently show that 80% or more of Australians approve of the system.
"There are two types of people" means exactly what it says, if you meant something different then you should have used different words rather than attacking people because of their inability to read your mind.
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So where is this guy claiming MS forced him to do this?
The guy has a proven best seller and it's a flop on windows. Has it crossed your mind that the act of complaining may have actually helped MS in the long run? I'm pretty sure that if I had a shop and a certain product was gathering dust on my shelves but flying of the shelves of similar shops, I would want to look into that. I'm not sure I would want it broadcast on the net but trying to shoot the (noisy) messenger would just make things worse.
Business is not a zero sum game, even though $10k is less than MS shell out for office toilet paper in a year, it's in both parties interests to get to the root of what appears to be a genuine problem.
OTOH, perception is everything, so they might decide it's simpler to quietly offer him a portion of the toilet paper budget to shut up.
Yep, that's what US politicians do best, appeasing their sponsors, they will quite happily deny reality and make total fools of themselves because they don't give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks. Doesn't matter that they set up and ran the committee, nor is it relevant that this guy was just doing his job. There was a fuck up, (in that the opinion was released to the outside), someone needs to be sacrificed to appease the gods..err...sponsors.
To me this sort of behavior tells me all I need to know about those particular politicians. They are the type of leaders who would routinely quell dissent by denying reality and silencing sympathizers. More than a few US politicians have the same default policy toward climate change, the ring leader of that well-established group is Senator Inhofe.
The "good old days" when there were no property rights and you got what you wanted by bashing whoever had it, those "good old days"? The internet (indeed civilization)cannot exist without some level of cooperation, nor is it healthy in the long run to put global infrastructure under the control of any single government. If you want to reduce the influence of regimes such as N. Korea simply bribe them to cooperate on global infrastructure then use it against them. You can't have a planet that generally adhears to democratic principles if you simply dismiss over a billion people out of hand because their government is a bit dodgy.
Do you really want to have an internet controlled by entities which care more about power than freedom?
Putting this stuff under the UN is no more about giving China control than it is about giving the US control. China is part of the internet, what they do with their national network is ultimately their own business, what they or anyone else do to a global communications network is everyone's business, sattelites will always ensure no national blackout is ever 100% effective.
I understand you could argue the same about the U.S. however history has proven those arguments to be false.
Yes, however sInce WW2 most of the good deeds that the US lays is rightly proud of were achived through international cooperation and leading by example, not unilateral action. A lot of people don't like the direction the US Republican's have been trying to lead the world over the last decade, it's clear from the outside that the lunatics are now in charge of Ronald Reagan's party. What's not so clear is why people still vote for them. And no, this isn't an endorsment of the Democrats, it's a call for reason and moderation in domestic US politics because the (historically) recent un-reason is adversly affecting the rest of us.
It's not neccessarily just about hating the UN.
Correct. It's about setting up a negotiating position externally, and creating and "us vs them" solidarity for the domestic punter, if there's no internal political debate the talking heads are silent on the subject except to state they are in agreement. In practical terms the internet would not exist if nations did not co-operate under some sort of treaty all the other crap is political theater. Such political games ensure that significant changes to the status quo on a global scale take generations to implement and are not understood by the public, that's a reasonable way to handle short term self interest but I doubt it's a good thing in the long run.
Learning/confirming that history would also serve as a "cheap" testing ground for unmanned missions to explore cracks on more distant surfaces such as Mars and Europa.
I like that. It is the classiest way of saying 'I'll pronounce it however I want. Now fuck off.'
Technically that is known as the humpty dumpty defense. Having said that I'm also an Aussie and agree with the OP on the pronounciation of an Australian place name, because we are Aussies we may have local knowledge that you lack, so it would be unfair to classify the GP's post as a humpty dumpty defense.
A much better translation would be "Fuck off tourist".
An intentional typo and boom - 100 posts. And some people still think the editors are stupid....
Close, it means no more crystal meth.
Those optimization failures are history other than the most extreme hot-rodders. All thats left is boring maintenance, and theres not much of it.
You hit the nail on the head. I'm one of the "grandfathers" you speak of, been driving (legally) since 1978, I've still got a "timing gun" somewhere in the garage. One minor nitpick, you forgot the simplest modification, on many older cars a foxtail tied to the aerial will give you an extra 10mph.
When I was young dad I spent many weekends under my car, now I have a car that doesn't break down and goes to the mechanic for regular servicing. I also don't mow my own lawn or maintain a lawn mower these days. Being "good with computers" has provided me with sufficient income that I no longer need to do some of the things I hate doing. If you enjoy repairing cars, mowing lawns, unblocking toilets, or cleaning roof gutters then great, I will happily pay you to do mine.
Thanks, I realise it's the other way around, but I thought it was interesting too, so I posted it. ;)
A monkey wrench is a monkey wrench but it's commonly called a "pair of Stilsons", Stilson is the name of a company that makes monkey wrenches. A pipe wrench is a pipe wrench. A plain old adjustable spanner is called a wrench, or more commonly a "shifter" which is shorthand for shifting spanner. Strangely a socket spanner is more commonly called a socket wrench. The same terminology is used in Australia because most of our past mechanics and engineers came from the UK.
CRT with a flat screen surface
I've got one of those in front of the couch, at the time panels were around $1k more than what I paid. Thing weighs a ton but it does the job. Way back in 1980 I bought a "portable" colour TV, it cost $400AU, (~3 weeks avg wages at the time), it was battered by kids for over 20yrs but was still working, my daughter inherited it but chucked it out when they turned off the analog signal a few years ago.
Most DPI I've seen doesn't do much more than look at headers
DPI - The 'D' stands for deep, if you're just looking at headers then it's "Shallow Packet Inspection".
"Wrench" is the British term for an adjustable spanner.
Oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere in the right concentrations
You may be surprised to know that life itself created our modern atmosphere, there was virtually no free oxygen for several billion years but there was life pretty much as soon as the things cooled down enough to allow oceans to form. Life put the oxygen in the atmosphere, the concentrations we have today are not just "luck".
As George Carlin put it; "The Earth doen't need saving, it's the human's who are fucked".
Of course, back then we had "tropical" climes north of the Arctic Circle
If you think the entire planet was like Hawaii back then, you're sadly misinformed.
Any of the presidents numerous body guards could assassinate him at any time, does that mean things aren't being done right?
Australia, it's not perfect, nothing is. However our national health outcomes are rated in the top 10, a family of four pays about 1/10th the cost of comparable private insurance in the US. It been.Statistically our system would have to kill another 20K people a year to be as effective as the US system. Polls consistently show that 80% or more of Australians approve of the system.
Coincidently Murdoch also own the WSJ, swings and roundabouts?
"There are two types of people" means exactly what it says, if you meant something different then you should have used different words rather than attacking people because of their inability to read your mind.
Murdoch is a modern day Barnum, he finds ideological freaks and brings them together, gladiator style.
So where does an old fart like me fit in. Most the time I don't even see the fireworks because I have this superpower called "focus".